Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

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Who We Are

News Corp Australia is the nation's largest media company operating over 150 house-hold name brands across print, digital and multimedia including The Daily Telegraph, The Australian and news.com.au. We are proud to be a central part of News Corp, a leading global network of powerful brands in news and information services, sports programming in Australia, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education and pay-TV distribution in Australia including Fox Sports, Dow Jones, Harper Collins, Realestate.com.au and The Wall Street Journal. 

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work on new and exciting projects, as well as help shape the architecture of our web infrastructure. We are about to take this to the next level for greater scalability and robustness to streamline workflow and to support business growth. You will implement and manage our infrastructure, develop internal tools and work to automate everything. As a Senior  DevOps Engineer you will be expected to contribute to technical road maps, architecture and mentoring of junior staff when required. 

Who you are

The successful candidate will join the IT Shared Services division and will be exposed to a number of IT Operational functions including Streamline & Circulation, Content and Insight, Automation, Digital Apps, News Life Media, AdSales, Finance and People and Culture. This position is critical as your core focus will be on the scalability, robustness and reliability of our online hosting environment.

You will be responsible for ensuring operational excellence in the automation of operations & support of technology platforms & infrastructure and play a key part in maintaining effective and standardised end-to-end operational support and processes for the customers’ services which includes definition of accountabilities. You will also be able to provide direction and accountability in delivery of automated services to National Technology Customers within News Corp to ensure that these Customers are supported by robust, reliable, repeatable, and fit-for-purpose automated operational services and processes whilst maintaining the alignment of the Operations strategy

Essential Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience as a DevOps Engineer in a Unix environment
• Solid commercial experience with AWS 
• Strong scripting experience in Python
• Passion - for all things internet, open-source software, security and cloud computing
• Ability to analyze failures and identify root causes in conjunction with developers
• An interest in exploring and implementing creative ways to improve site availability, performance and scalability

Experience with Redhat, Amazon Linux, Windows, Puppet, Python, NodeJS will be highly regarded.

You will have a positive ‘can-do’ attitude and excellent communication & organisation skills. You will take pride in your work and take ownership and accountability of meeting deadlines.

Where do I sign?

This full-time role is based in our lively Surry Hills office in Sydney. News Corp Australia is evolving in response to the expectations and challenges of the digital world in which we now live. We have an amazing opportunity to reinvent our industry and redefine the future of media in Australia. We are passionate about what we do and proud of our heritage of world-class journalism and entrepreneurial spirit. Our environment is supportive and friendly, we encourage innovation, collaboration and creative thinking. If you thrive on being challenged and enjoy working in a fast-paced stimulating environment, come and join us on this incredible journey.

To apply or find out more about careers with us, see newscorpaustralia.com/careers